Kabarole district has been hit by heavy hail storms that have destroyed people’s crops and house rooftops leaving a majority in need of emergency support of food and housing from government.

MP Margaret Muhanga the Woman MP for Kabarole.

According to the Area Member of Parliament for Burahya County in Kabarole district, Margret Muhanga, heavy rains with wind blew off house rooftops and carried away gardens of crops for 20 villages in Kasemba and Busolo sub counties on Monday.

Muhanga who was on Tuesday rising a matter of national importance in Parliament called for a swift action from the concerned stakeholders to avoid hunger and disease from affecting the people in those areas.
She mentioned that even the President’s village of Rwengaju was badly hit by the disaster including Bakerwa, Kigaragwa and Rwakikurwa villages.

Muhanga appealed to the Prime Minister’s office to respond to the disaster by giving the people in those places assistance in terms of food, iron sheets and quick growing seeds.